Literary Reading Rates Among Adults Increases

That's good news to librarians. The National Endowment for the Arts has published an article called "Survey of Public Participation in the Arts" which states that in 2008, 50.2% of adults read a novel, short story, poem or play either in print or online. That's up from 46.7% in 2002.

One interesting point in this is that they didn't count nonfiction which makes up a sizeable amount of our circulation. So the reading public is alive and well, no matter what they are reading.